Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer